Designing a mailing area

If you plan to have your newsletter be a self-mailer then we need to design a…mailing area and in the finished version, we've allotted about one quarter…of the vertical space of the back page to the mailing area. So let's very quickly…recreate that. It's going to be very simple.…So in newsletter27, I'm going to zoom in down on this area and let's turn the…guides on. From an earlier version we have the frame there ready to accommodate…our mailing information and we're going to use our nameplate again.…

So that we make sure that it's entirely consistent and it's probably going to…be easiest if I just go and pick one up and copy and paste it. I can't get this…one here because this is a master page item but if I move back to Page 2…we have that one right there in the masthead. I'm going to select that one and…copy it and I'll move back to Page 8.…Command+J, type in 8 and then I'm going to paste that and bring that down into…position and position that like so and then I'm just going to type in the…

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6/4/2009

Creating a successful newsletter means spending less time on repetitive tasks and more time creating the design. In Designing a Newsletter, graphic designer and Adobe Certified Instructor Nigel French teaches effective design and production techniques. He uses Adobe InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, and Bridge to create an eight-page newsletter that's eye-catching and impactful. Nigel establishes an efficient workflow using multiple programs, examines the aesthetics of integrating text with images, and teaches best practices for outputting a final document. Exercise files accompany the course.